ATP’s Jabberwocky Festival at Excel cancelled days before start

All Tomorrow’s Parties’ (ATP) Jabberwocky Festival has been cancelled due to insufficient ticket sales, just days before the event was scheduled to take place at Excel London (15-16 August).

The inaugural event, which had headliners billed including James Blake and Darkside, was a collaboration between ATP, Pitchfork and Primavera Sound. It was positioned as an experimental event, showcasing art, film and an eclectic, alternative music programme.

The organiser’s statement reads: “We apologise to all the people we have let down from fans to the bands, the venue and all the suppliers. We have tried everything in our power to save this event and continue, but the losses we have recently incurred have unfortunately been too much for a company of our size to bear.

It is with deep sadness we regret to inform everyone that as of today Tuesday 12 August 2014, ATP is being forced into cancelling this weekend’s Jabberwocky festival. Refunds will be available to all customers at the point of purchase.

We have put everything into promoting Jabberwocky, and despite healthy ticket sales; all our efforts could not take those sales to the point that we needed to finally stage the event. Over the past month and all the way up until this moment we have tried every possible course of action to follow through in delivering Jabberwocky to you, but the position we unfortunately find ourselves in as a result of a succession of events that have lost money in an increasingly aggressive festival market, means we are no longer able to do so.

In the past ATP has weathered losses such as this and gone on with the show, taking huge direct financial blows as an independent company. But on this occasion, with an event of this scale and the high production costs that come with it – if we had gone ahead; it would have 100% been the end of ATP. We do not take this decision lightly and it was the hardest we’ve ever had to make.”

All other ATP Presents shows will go ahead as planned, including ATP Iceland in 2015.

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ATP’s Jabberwocky Festival at Excel cancelled days before start

All Tomorrow’s Parties’ (ATP) Jabberwocky Festival has been cancelled due to insufficient ticket sales, just days before the event was scheduled to take place at Excel London (15-16 August).

The inaugural event, which had headliners billed including James Blake and Darkside, was a collaboration between ATP, Pitchfork and Primavera Sound. It was positioned as an experimental event, showcasing art, film and an eclectic, alternative music programme.

The organiser’s statement reads: “We apologise to all the people we have let down from fans to the bands, the venue and all the suppliers. We have tried everything in our power to save this event and continue, but the losses we have recently incurred have unfortunately been too much for a company of our size to bear.

It is with deep sadness we regret to inform everyone that as of today Tuesday 12 August 2014, ATP is being forced into cancelling this weekend’s Jabberwocky festival. Refunds will be available to all customers at the point of purchase.

We have put everything into promoting Jabberwocky, and despite healthy ticket sales; all our efforts could not take those sales to the point that we needed to finally stage the event. Over the past month and all the way up until this moment we have tried every possible course of action to follow through in delivering Jabberwocky to you, but the position we unfortunately find ourselves in as a result of a succession of events that have lost money in an increasingly aggressive festival market, means we are no longer able to do so.

In the past ATP has weathered losses such as this and gone on with the show, taking huge direct financial blows as an independent company. But on this occasion, with an event of this scale and the high production costs that come with it – if we had gone ahead; it would have 100% been the end of ATP. We do not take this decision lightly and it was the hardest we’ve ever had to make.”

All other ATP Presents shows will go ahead as planned, including ATP Iceland in 2015.

Poll

London is teeming with great music venues - both established favourites and rising stars. For our poll for this week, we want to know: which of the venues below are your personal favourites? You may pick up to three: